Anuj Khurana

Most of the health influencer industry, sans any medical degree, has reached a stage where they have run out of things to say or repeat. So now they follow two principles - 1. Find any traditional Indian item, method, recipe and criticise it. - आप जो आटे को गूँथ कर रोटी बना कर खा रहे हैं ..उससे कैंसर हो सकता है। आटे को सुखा खायें और गरम तवे पर मुँह रख लें। 2. Desperately search for items that no other influencer has spoken about and turn it into nectar for eternal life. - कच्ची भिंडी के बीज और उबले केले के छिलके को मसूर की दाल के साथ पीस कर अपने नथुनों में भर कर सो जाएँ। BP, Sugar और जोड़ों के दर्द से राहत मिलेगी और skin भी बेहतरीन हो जाएगी।

takes longer and is more complex to write an eval for systems than to build the actual system.

men in their 40s used to have cool midlife crisis but now they just have agentic workflows

Don't know if it matters, but frappe now has more github stars than bitcoin and mongodb 🤷‍♂️

it goes without saying but if you're feeling anxious about the global geopolitical situation, oceans boiling, authoritarian tendencies in the west and accelerated job loss due to AI then i recommend spending as much time on your phone as possible. being informed calms the mind

Loved this quote from Rajeev Kapur : “AI is like teen sex. Everyone's talking about it, very few know how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, and everyone claims they are doing it."

My new favorite insult is calling someone’s job a Claude skill.

I’ve stayed in hotel rooms over the past week and was wondering if anyone else wishes manufacturers would write “shampoo” and “conditioner” in a bigger font so we could read them in the shower without our glasses. FFS 😖

Consulting companies and the new economy: "The big question in artificial intelligence economics is: If you are a company that sells some sort of knowledge-work service, will AI make you more efficient, or will it make you worthless? The bull case for, say, a consulting firm is that you can use AI to replace a lot of your expensive employees, cutting costs and providing better and faster consulting, increasing your sales and margins. The bear case is that your clients can use AI to replace you, cutting their costs and getting better and faster consulting, decreasing your sales and margins. "This creates a weird dynamic where knowledge-industry companies are simultaneously saying to their employees “you are all worthless and we will replace you with machines” and saying to their customers “oooh our employees are amazing and could never be replaced by machines.”" —@matt_levine

It occurs to me that almost all trained medical practitioners gatekeep, and would rather that you die of the disease than a cure they don’t understand. They will allow you to die of a cure they do understand though. Under no circumstance do they acknowledge your own agency over your own body.

Big identity crisis in many engineering circles rn. People who've historically considered themselves "builders" now realizing they aren't the ones building shit anymore, AI is. The moral superiority of the "I build things, you just talk" mentality is irrelevant now that the coding language is english and anyone can build things by talking. The skills that made them so economically valuable are almost fully commoditized, and they're being forced to adopt a new identity. An identity most of them despise and have mocked their entire careers. To remain relevant, they must become the "idea guy"

Couldnt agree more. Right now both product and engineering teams are busy finding excuses for why claude doesn't work for their codebase. Both are afraid. Engg continues to build plumbing and product continues to "own the outcome" without owning the implementation.

@cgtwts the way Claude just casually drops "7 AM" like that's a reasonable hour to start functioning again

"Claude usage limit reached. Your limit will reset at 7 AM”

This is the best articulation I have heard of why therapy language should not be uttered outside of competent supervision

@banglani Did you know that certain cultures like Vietnam consider day born as first birthday. so their official age is 1 year more than ours. very much like our Republic day accounting 🙂

There are many reasons i like Republic Day, but my favourite is that its accounting treatment is different from other anniversaries. Your 10th birthday is 10 years after your birth. Your 25th wedding anniversary is 25 years after your wedding. But the 77th republic day is 76 years from the founding of the republic. It's because the first republic day was the day the republic was founded, not a year after. In this regard it's different even from Independence Day. And for that reason alone, a superior holiday :)

I had a million opportunities to waste money this year and I took them all. In fact, even when there wasn’t an opportunity, I created one.

Unacademy turns 10 today I thought it's a good occasion to jot down some thoughts on this day about the wild ride that we have gone through. Ten years ago, we started with a simple mission: to empower great educators and make their content accessible to everyone. This is when the company was started. Unacademy started as a YouTube channel in 2010, 15 years ago. When I was in the 3rd year of my college. And I started making videos on computer science to help my friends. It continued as a side project with @RomanSaini joining in 2014, and us blitzscaling the YouTube channel. His UPSC videos would get millions of views that helped us in becoming the number one education channel in the country. We thought that the biggest problem then was that the smartest people are not teaching, and we need a platform where we'll get the best educators who'll create videos for learners for free. Kind of like what Twitch had done to gaming, we wanted to do that to education. Create a YouTube-like platform. And on 10th December 2015, Unacademy was launched. For the first four years, we kept adding more and more great educators to the platform, which would lead to millions of learners joining the platform. There was a point in 2018 when we were doing millions of views per month on our own platform, with Unacademy being the number one education app on the Play Store. And it was all organic growth, because we had a rule to not spend money on performance marketing. These were exciting times. Roman would personally go to the houses of potential educators to convince them to start teaching on an Unacademy. That's how some of the best educators joined the platform. From the beginning, we always thought of ourselves as a tech company operating in education. Unlike every other player in the market which behaved like an education company using tech to enable them. That's why we had features like streaks, knowledge hats, and a lot of gamification built in for educators and learners. Educators would get massively addicted to the knowledge hats which the learners would gift them on crossing certain milestones. Even till today, some of the biggest educators that we have are the ones who grew on the free platform that we had built as our first product. Then, in 2019, just one year before Covid hit, we launched a subscription product where learners could buy a subscription and get access to live classes from the best educators for their exam. The product was an instant hit. From zero revenue in January 2019 to $1.8M revenue in September 2019, we were one of the fastest growing companies to get to almost $20M Bookings ARR in nine months. The next one year was crazy because our revenue kept scaling and especially post-Covid, we were growing even faster. Almost 1M Paid Subscribers were now enrolled on Unacademy. There were three back-to-back funding rounds. From being a $100M valuation at the start of 2019, we were at a $1.5B valuation by September 2020. We had spent less than $50M to reach a valuation of $1.5B. But soon the distractions began. In the next few months, we did another round, ended up raising another $440 million. Totalling the fund raise to more than $700 million in just less than two years. We thought that what we are seeing in COVID would sustain forever and that's the new reality. And started burning a lot of money to acquire a lot of market share, without realizing that education business is slightly different from a normal tech business, and here your first transaction is basically your LTV. We had become the number one test prep brand in terms of recall. We were the number one test prep player in terms of online business, which had scaled to almost $100M in revenue.